1. Table 1. EVD outbreaks since 1976
Year
Virus
Geographic Location
Human Deaths
Cases
CFR (case-fatality risk)
1976
SUDV
Juba, Madrid, Nzara, and Tembura, Sudan
151
284
53%
EBOV
Yambuku, Zaire
280
318
88%
1977
Bonduni, Zaire 1
100%
1979
Nzara, Sudan 22 34
65%
1988
Porton Down, United Kingdom [laboratory accident] 0%
1994
TAFV
Tai National Park, Cote d’Ivoire
1994–1995
Woleu-Ntem and Ogooue-Ivindo Provinces, Gabon 32 52
62%
1995
Kikwit, Zaire
245
317
77%
1996
Mayibout 2, Gabon 21 31
68%
Sergiyev Posad, Russia [laboratory accident]
1996–1997
Ogooue-Ivindo Provinces, Gabon; Cuvette-Ouest Department, Republic of the Congo 46 62
74%
2000–2001
Guku, Mbarara, and Masindi Districts, Uganda
224
425
2001–2002 97
124
78%
2002 10 11
91%
2002–2003
Cuvette-Ouest Department, Republic of the Congo; Ogooue-Ivindo Provinces, Gabon
128
143
90%
2003–2004
Cuvette-Ouest Department, Republic of the Congo 29 35
83%
2004
Koltsovo, Russia [laboratory accident]
Yambio County, Sudan 7 17
41%
2005 9
82%
2007
Kasai Occidental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
186
264
71%
2007–2008
BDBV
Bundibugyo District, Uganda 39
116
34%
2008–2009 15
47%
2011
Luweero District, Uganda
2012
Kibaale District, Western Uganda 24
Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo 36 77
2014
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria
2,746
5,762
47.7%
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan et al. The Most Fatal 2014 Outbreak of Ebolavirus Disease in Western Africa. American Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease, 2014, Vol. 2, No. 4, doi: /ajeid-2-4-4
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